Claim: Efforts are in progress and we have already provided gas connections to around 50 lakh and that also have been done merely within the last hundred days.
Fact: False. Only 3.5 million applications were cleared and 1.7 million connections issued between the PM Ujjwala scheme’s launch on May 1, 2016, and July 21, 2016.
Explanation: As many as 3.5 million (or 35 lakh) applications were cleared and 1.7 million (or 17 lakh) connections issued as on July 21, 2016, a government reply in Lok Sabha (parliament’s lower house) said on July 25, 2016.
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